One of the things I've always said CS needed was color. It was always so black and white and gray to me. At least now they give buildings a pop or allow you to tone it down a bit. Lovely Packs!!🤩 I also love that they can be blended with the packs that are out already!
I'm just at the beginning of the video and allready impressed by the sheer amount of buildings. 😲 Thanks for the time you invested presenting these to us, Biffa! And of course thanks and big respect to the creator(s) of these great assets! 🙂 I guess one could combine a lot of these with the german pack to build an east german (former GDR) styled city.
The re-color stuff is actually pretty simple. If the asset designer has taken advantage of a game feature that allows different instances of the asset to use colour variations, then they work with the re-color mod... and if the designer _hasn't_ used that feature, it won't.
I think this is exactly what the game needed. Way WAY more content to plop down and ahve fun with. Thanks for your in-depth reviews as always, Biffa!!!
Love that round signature tower building. The creator could make a few easy changes and turn it into the historic Capitol Records building in Hollywood.
Fun fact: the water tower at 03:40 looks like a smaller version of the one in my hometown Askersund, Sweden. Which has been remodeled into apartments :D
Looks like a great expansion pack, it would be interesting to get a 'college' at some point that is a "Marine Biology Institute" which could have an Aquarium/Research Centre wing (or both) and it actively improves the welfare of waterways and fishing industries in game.
Honestly? I feel like if you combine all the European country packs, you actually get a realistic looking European (or at least German) city ^^ At least here in Germany, I feel like you'll see a lot of variation between buildings (likely depending on whether they were rebuilt after WWII or not) and I've seen familiar buildings in the French, German and this Eastern European video. Depending on the development plan, you might have neighbourhoods with very similar looking buildings (sometimes) but at least across an entire city, you will likely see most of all of these buildings or variations thereof. Good thing the packs are free ^^
Some great looking buildings, although there's such a range between traditional buildings and more modernist ones in the same zoning type, I imagine people will either be doing a lot of whack-a-moling or employing Plop the Growables so that they get the buildings they want to fit in a certain area.
I can see the Brutalist style working well in the UK. Most town, especially new towns, had some degree of Brutalist building or design. I'd also some of the uglier ones could be used in a Scottish-inspired new town. (I apologise to my Scottish relatives but even the worst of Harlow is better than 95% of new town Scotland.)
What a nice pack! Very realistic, some building with beautiful colors and other grey ugly AF :D OT: just jumped in my mind, how cool should be an Hollywood pack with all buildings come from popular movies (like ghostbuster firestation, raccoon city PD, etc.) surely with fake names to avoid copyright :D
According on what we just saw, Biffa ain't british, he's from EE fo-sho 🤣🤣🤣👍 Awesome job, excellent review m8 👌 Btw, what was the track playing while you was building, sir?
@BiffaPlaysCitiesSkylines thanx m8, keep on doing those splendid reviews on upcoming stuff in CS2. I'll just wait till get my hand on Ultimate Pack for CS2, just need an proper PC. I found the track "cruise control by King Major". They did huge work on CS2 making game more atmospheric than first Sky Lines. 👍👍👍🤝
Still waiting for the "No problem Atoll" - Mug, maybe futurewise.... Even if you can´t change the colour of the big railwaystation, I THINK IT LOOKS ABSOLUTLY BEAUTIFUL
Grateful for the new low rent buildings and high density, but most of this stuff I won't use. The colours are horrible. I'm not opposed to colour, but they just seem too saturated, or too many different bright colours on the one asset. LOVE the disease control centre and the modernist post office.
I was waiting for that pack since its been announced, I got some mixed feelings. Lots of missed opportunities in that pack, those low density houses are dissapointing, larger buildings are almost only focusing on the soviet era.. high dens buildings and some service assets are certainly amazing!
How? If we assume each window is a room then the main building shows 16 per side x 5 floors x 2 sides. So 160 rooms. 10000/160 is 62.5. Which seems a tad high on average.
Do/did people in Eastern Europe actually used these extremely vibrant colors on their houses/fences as we see in the low density residential? It's odd to say the least. I'm from Czechia which is sitting kinda between the Wester-Eastern Europe so maybe the countries more to the East have these but I'm not familiar with it here. I mean, some people use weird colors on their facades even nowadays but it's really not common.
Not so much now, but 20 years ago, people in Poland used to paint their houses sooo bright-like they wanted to get rid of all that post-communist dullness (try to google 'pasteloza' and you'll see). Over time, it started to calm down, and now white is the most popular color for houses
90% of humanity lives in the North hemisphere. Anyway, I'm sure in the future they will pop out something like South America pack or African vibe, Australia not sure has enought original building style
I`m ukrainian and every day i see that buidings around myself. obviously i thought there would be much more buidings from 70-s. but anyway that pack is good
i want like buildings from vancouver canada or the new buildings that light up in china like the twin towers or stadiums that are active making money, and maybe have someoone make me an asset or building i want currently, city skylines 2 is sooo boring. with the same old same old.
I love that we are getting some lower density low-rent housing in this pack as opposed to the massive buildings that come with the base game.
Loving that a lot of these will fit into a UK build. Matching 60s/70's style stuff.
100% :-)
If you mix EE and UK pack you can lose the feel of reality, cose it'll be so home 🧐🤣😉🤝
@@silentneighbour4865 bloody hell, I came to the UK in 2022, Polish architecture is a century ahead compared to the British xD
Such a terrific pack. Thanks for your overview. Can’t wait to use those train stations and the city hall!
One of the things I've always said CS needed was color. It was always so black and white and gray to me. At least now they give buildings a pop or allow you to tone it down a bit. Lovely Packs!!🤩 I also love that they can be blended with the packs that are out already!
Great overview! The first hospital looks so similar to the one I work in… in London. Even more so with the upgrades
I am sweating in down under by 39C today, thank you Biffa, for your detailed work and explanation. Was fun to watch it and to place it :)
I'm just at the beginning of the video and allready impressed by the sheer amount of buildings. 😲
Thanks for the time you invested presenting these to us, Biffa! And of course thanks and big respect to the creator(s) of these great assets! 🙂
I guess one could combine a lot of these with the german pack to build an east german (former GDR) styled city.
I recognize Alex_by! He does Transport Fever 2 mods and is really good at it.
The re-color stuff is actually pretty simple. If the asset designer has taken advantage of a game feature that allows different instances of the asset to use colour variations, then they work with the re-color mod... and if the designer _hasn't_ used that feature, it won't.
Cheers Biffa, another great review. Time for a cuppa!
Thank you @gwill66000 :-)
Breathing Heavily - watching EE pack with excitement.
I think this is exactly what the game needed. Way WAY more content to plop down and ahve fun with. Thanks for your in-depth reviews as always, Biffa!!!
Glad I could help!
The signature and service buildings in this pack are great. I really love the two small tower signature buildings!
For the US packs I would love to see builds at the coast!
Some of those would even work well in Kettlewick to be honest
100%
Nice, Biffa! Thanks for the info! 👍
Love that round signature tower building. The creator could make a few easy changes and turn it into the historic Capitol Records building in Hollywood.
Okrąglak! Looks great in real life as well, seen it in person many times :)
You know what would be nice? If you could zone region-neutrally, but set different relative probabilities for the packs.
That little water tower would be a great stand in for a Light House in a coastal build
Nice run down Biffa. I've passed on that odd behaviour on the sub-objects (walls) with Recolor to yenyang.
I am English and love those sips of tea but I live in Slovakia (in central/Eastern Europe) the buildings are really realistic
Fun fact: the water tower at 03:40 looks like a smaller version of the one in my hometown Askersund, Sweden. Which has been remodeled into apartments :D
Looks like a great expansion pack, it would be interesting to get a 'college' at some point that is a "Marine Biology Institute" which could have an Aquarium/Research Centre wing (or both) and it actively improves the welfare of waterways and fishing industries in game.
21:47 You: deleting graffiti artifacts
Me: Wow, Kubrick Courteayard… is gone.
Thanks for the new video! 😀
Honestly? I feel like if you combine all the European country packs, you actually get a realistic looking European (or at least German) city ^^
At least here in Germany, I feel like you'll see a lot of variation between buildings (likely depending on whether they were rebuilt after WWII or not) and I've seen familiar buildings in the French, German and this Eastern European video. Depending on the development plan, you might have neighbourhoods with very similar looking buildings (sometimes) but at least across an entire city, you will likely see most of all of these buildings or variations thereof.
Good thing the packs are free ^^
11:17 my girlfriends mother works for 20 years in this round Building in Poznan at Polish Bank PKO
I see you already have the China Pack Mr Biffa, I saw the CN in your region list early in the video. 😁😁
Some great looking buildings, although there's such a range between traditional buildings and more modernist ones in the same zoning type, I imagine people will either be doing a lot of whack-a-moling or employing Plop the Growables so that they get the buildings they want to fit in a certain area.
I can see the Brutalist style working well in the UK. Most town, especially new towns, had some degree of Brutalist building or design.
I'd also some of the uglier ones could be used in a Scottish-inspired new town. (I apologise to my Scottish relatives but even the worst of Harlow is better than 95% of new town Scotland.)
We do have a lot in the UK for sure :-)
@@BiffaPlaysCitiesSkylines And it's mostly horrible to look at. Souless concrete is not a good idea, you need colour and greenery instead.
@@questionmaker5666 Wait until the depressing pasty-grey colour of pebble-dashed Scottish new town council estate in the pallid Sun in late autumn.
I do hope we get these packs when CS2 eventually comes to consoles
That's the plan 👌
Hi Biffa please adjust your lighting using the Time and Weather Anarchy so we can better see the front of the buildings!
What a nice pack! Very realistic, some building with beautiful colors and other grey ugly AF :D
OT: just jumped in my mind, how cool should be an Hollywood pack with all buildings come from popular movies (like ghostbuster firestation, raccoon city PD, etc.) surely with fake names to avoid copyright :D
Huh that shopping centre reminds me of St Johns in Liverpool
i hope that every pack gets updates like the german and french one
This buildings are beautiful! I am from Poland and they look like in real life❤
Gr8 pack, Bifa. I love it.
...see how they fit in with the other European packs, the French and German *~crickets~*
Did we forget where in the world the UK is Biffa?
According on what we just saw, Biffa ain't british, he's from EE fo-sho 🤣🤣🤣👍
Awesome job, excellent review m8 👌
Btw, what was the track playing while you was building, sir?
Thanks! The music was the Cities 2 soundtrack :-)
@BiffaPlaysCitiesSkylines thanx m8, keep on doing those splendid reviews on upcoming stuff in CS2. I'll just wait till get my hand on Ultimate Pack for CS2, just need an proper PC.
I found the track "cruise control by King Major". They did huge work on CS2 making game more atmospheric than first Sky Lines.
👍👍👍🤝
these packs are awesome but still waiting for a console release date. Every time I see your videos i just want to jump in and play
Fantastic looking pack 🫖
with german + east european pack you can create different east german or west polish cities
Очень православно! Партия одобряет KKomrade !
Unless the terms got mixed up with low rent and low density, it's nice to see some low rent options that are not urban/high-rise buildings.
Yeah they are "lower" than we've seen before :-)
10,000 students for a single college building is quite large… Bangor University is about 10,000 students itself.
Still waiting for the "No problem Atoll" - Mug, maybe futurewise....
Even if you can´t change the colour of the big railwaystation, I THINK IT LOOKS ABSOLUTLY BEAUTIFUL
Biffa you should add a soviet like apartments in the next island
I'm sure the buildings with gray roofs have asbestos tiles. It's funny how Biffa worries about pollution when he builds carcinogenic houses.
Grateful for the new low rent buildings and high density, but most of this stuff I won't use. The colours are horrible. I'm not opposed to colour, but they just seem too saturated, or too many different bright colours on the one asset. LOVE the disease control centre and the modernist post office.
at 25 min. you´ve been putting some houses wall to wall wich had windows on all 4 sides...
Nice Video!
I was waiting for that pack since its been announced, I got some mixed feelings. Lots of missed opportunities in that pack, those low density houses are dissapointing, larger buildings are almost only focusing on the soviet era.. high dens buildings and some service assets are certainly amazing!
Eastern European? looks like a council estate in England!
Do you guys think the region packs will be available when city skylines 2 comes out on Xbox?
That's the point of the free Region packs on pdx 👍👍 enjoy! (Eventually)
When you buy a DLC on instant gaming do you get a steam key?
Yes 👍
Eastern European pack, or as we in Sweden would call it. 50-60s buildings.
Same in Germany ^^
The place I grew up in (in Germany, closer to the Netherlands) looks like this than it does the Germany pack.
Will you add this pack to the uk theme?
Create a district named little Brewteaslava
Most of these buildings could be from Western (European) cities, too - just modern architecture.
there will be 25 students per classroom if its all classrooms
How?
If we assume each window is a room then the main building shows 16 per side x 5 floors x 2 sides. So 160 rooms. 10000/160 is 62.5. Which seems a tad high on average.
@nealjroberts4050 some Classes is in basement and dining area in my city
@Feky_Yt Sure but there needs to be twice as many basement levels for this building to match the OP.
When I was a student, we had 2 shifts. Morning students starting at 8 and afternoon students starting at 11 or 12. School was for ~1400 students.
Nice
And tea
So nice :-)
Do/did people in Eastern Europe actually used these extremely vibrant colors on their houses/fences as we see in the low density residential? It's odd to say the least. I'm from Czechia which is sitting kinda between the Wester-Eastern Europe so maybe the countries more to the East have these but I'm not familiar with it here. I mean, some people use weird colors on their facades even nowadays but it's really not common.
Oh yeah they do. The farther east and south you are the more you see a desire to use the brightest colours imaginable.
Not so much now, but 20 years ago, people in Poland used to paint their houses sooo bright-like they wanted to get rid of all that post-communist dullness (try to google 'pasteloza' and you'll see). Over time, it started to calm down, and now white is the most popular color for houses
in soviet eastern Europe a house will be assigned to you 😂
Wow these giant concrete blocks look depressingly familiar…
Why no video chapters?
Because I didn't do them 🤷♂️
He doesn't get those eastern europe vibes
This game is for those living in the Northern hemisphere...
90% of humanity lives in the North hemisphere. Anyway, I'm sure in the future they will pop out something like South America pack or African vibe, Australia not sure has enought original building style
@Nasdegoma true, they must show some sort of vesertility...
I`m ukrainian and every day i see that buidings around myself.
obviously i thought there would be much more buidings from 70-s. but anyway that pack is good
Its the biggest pack yet? Probably cuz all the other ones were individual countries and this one is half a continent
Biffa gang button
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It is a good pack but some of the colours aren’t great and it’s not easy to fit stuff together sometimes. 😢
So many to look at - you were really russian through it all... ...I'll show myself out.
😅
Where churches?
*cheers on medical labs and disease control*
i want like buildings from vancouver canada or the new buildings that light up in china like the twin towers or stadiums that are active making money, and maybe have someoone make me an asset or building i want currently, city skylines 2 is sooo boring. with the same old same old.
Opening the game.... game crashed. Thx again for nothing. Maybe waiting another year for the game finally leaving the alpha status?😅😊
There's loads of reasons why it can be crashing. If you're using mods that a whole thing as you have ot make sure you have compatible ones.
@@BiffaPlaysCitiesSkylinesi restarted about 4 times and after the 5th time i can access the game again 😂😂
ive been hooked on cities skylines 1 is it worth getting CS2? and is it harder to play and manage compared to CS1 ?
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